#114: The Great Mandelbulber - bib993

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Hello people, welcome to the third interview of The Great Mandelbulber series! :la:

Today I'm gonna introduce you Jérémie Brunet, better known as bib993!
Everybody knows Jérémie for his outstanding Mandelbulbs, which have been part of many shows, as the recent Beyond The Infinite exibition in Karlstad (Sweden) along with MANDELWERK:

Definetely a great example to follow! :love:
Let's go straight to the interview!


The Great Mandelbulber - bib993


:bulletyellow:Hello bib993! Tell us something about you.
I bought 2 high end PCs in last 2 years just to make fractals!

:bulletyellow:Was Mandelbulb 3D your first choice when you began your artistic journey?
To be honest, I never intended to begin any artistic journey! Like many fractalers I'm just a kind of lazy geek who likes to produce stunning graphics in a few mouse clicks. :-)
To answer your question, I don't remember exactly the first programs I used to make fractals, that was back in the Amiga times. Later on when I got my first PC I started to play with several programs and the one that quickly draw my attention was Ultrafractal v2.0. Much later on, at the time of the discovery of the Mandelbulb, I started playing with these new 3D fractals in Ultrafractal using Dave Makin's formulas, but after some time and having produced many very early Mandelbulb videos, I switched to Mandelbulb3D that was specifically designed for 3D fractals and so much more efficient. I tried a few other progs, including Mandelbulber of course, but it was too late, I was already hooked to M3D and since then it has become my favorite fractal prog.

:bulletyellow:When did you make your first fractal with Mandelbulb 3D, and how did it feel to reach this achievement?
Here is the first render I did with M3D:

That was in June 2010. It's a hybrid of a Mandelbulb and a Sierpinski tetrahedron, and I still love that image because we can clearly see what hybrid means and how the 2 formulas are alternating.
But actually I had posted a few days before a K-IFS video made with M3D , here it is: Sierpinski Dance video.
I did not consider that was any kind of achievement, but I was really amazed by the capabilities, and I still am!
As we were only a handful of users at that time, I was lucky to have a direct contact with Jesse and I was a beta tester of many early features, that was very exciting! Moreover, Jesse has always been listening to my needs, and there are some features in the tool that come directly from requests I made, like the 2-points DoF for instance, and some features in the animation editor.

:bulletyellow:Among all the fractal programs available, why do you prefer Mandelbulb3D to work with?
This is essentially a matter of habit and learning curve. Once you get used to the UI and the way the calculation engine works, it's easier to capitalize on this experience rather than trying other programs. Once again, laziness is the key :-). I also want to mention that the early excitement around this program was kept intact for a very long time (and still today!) because Jesse is adding so many innovations in it and it's like Christmas each time there is a new release.

:bulletyellow:Is there any aim you would like to reach in the near future as a fractal artist?
I wish that one day fractal artists are just called artists! Moving away from the mathematics/scientific/computer geek area and entering the domain of contemporary art is not easy. I'm slowly doing some progress here. My next exhibition will happen at a contemporary art fair in Paris at the end of September (art-oclock.com) where I am sponsored by a local art gallery.

:bulletyellow:Is there any deviant or artist who is inspirational to you?
Of course I have many sources of inspiration on DA. My favorite 3D fractal artists are MANDELWERK, MarkJayBee, HalTenny, dark-beam, FractKali, DsyneGrafix, KrzysztofMarczak, Len1, 0Encrypted0, Theli-at, mehrdadart, Vidom, Tahyon, kr0mat1k, CO99A5, gnubakaduba, Xantipa2, hyperben2, dainbramage1, hmn... It's great to see such a diverse community of talents!

:bulletyellow:What would you say to encourage people in starting using Mandelbulb 3D?
I would say that you can have fun very quickly, especially if you like to make animations. However, as usual, it takes some time to better understand how to control the beast. So, I would encourage people to alternate between tweaking existing parameters and trying to find their own. Many people think that the search for interesting fractals is a random process but I disagree. Once you have identified some patterns in the way the formulas can be arranged together and once you get used to some values that produce pleasant results, you can try to recombinate them differently, try mixing variants, etc...Of course, luck is part of the game. As Thomas Jefferson said, "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.".

:bulletyellow:Are you interested in experimenting with other means of art? (traditional or digital art)
Not really. I mean, it's not a matter of interest, rather a matter of priorities in life! But I like to try new generative art tools when I stumble upon one of them.

:bulletyellow:Anything else you would like to say?
Thanks for asking all these questions, I hope the 3D fractal art community will continue to grow and tell the world that we are not just pushing buttons randomly!




Hope you enjoyed this interview (and discovered something new)! And thanks a lot to bib993! :la:
See you next month! :wave: :love:


:bulletred:Any suggestion for the next volume of "The Great Mandelbulber"? Want to read the interview of your favorite MB3D artist? Additional questions? Send me a note with your opinion! :w00t:

:bulletred:Don't miss the previous "The Great Mandelbulber" interviews!!!
The Great Mandelbulber - dark-beam
The Great Mandelbulber - MarkJayBee
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Vidom's avatar
Great interview! :clap:
It's funny how much Jérémie cites the word 'lazy', when I can only imagine the hard work he spends for his works :lmao:
Well done, both of you :-)